This week was my first time volunteering in my son's 3rd
grade class. The teacher had me work one-on-one with a few students helping
them learn their spelling words. It reminded me of just how boring studying
spelling words can be. In brainstorming new ways to practice with my own oldest
son, I came up with this idea.
This little game focuses on learning five words.
Quiz
your child or look at their pretest to see which words on the list they are
struggling with. Those are the five.
For this game you need to print five bushels and a
special die. Download the 6-page PDF I made here. Print onto heavyweight
cardstock. Cut, fold, and glue the die together.
Either laminate the five bushel pages or slip them into
plastic sheet protectors. Label each on the line at the top of the page with
one challenging spelling word (or use sight words if that's what you're working
on). Use a fine tip-dry erase marker.
Now grab your kiddo and tell them it's time to "Fill the Bushel."
How to Play
The player rolls the die. If they roll a four, for
example, they find the page with that number on it, look at the word at the top
of the page, and copy it onto one of the apples in the bushel with the
dry-erase marker.
If the player rolls the worm, they roll again until the
die shows a number. That number tells them what bushel to erase a word from;
that was a bad apple and it must be thrown out. If they roll the number that
has no words yet, he/she moves on without any erasing (rolling again to see
what bushel to add a word to).
Kids can either stop rolling when one of the bushels is
full or keep going until ALL the bushels are full, keeping track of which were
filled 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.
The repetition of writing the five words again and again is
sure to help him remember them when it's test time.
My son got caught up in the game and forgot we were
practicing spelling. That totally fills MY bucket.
UPDATE: A blog follower came up with a great adaptation for her kiddo. She plans to use this little game to help her kindergartener practice writing certain letters. (What a good idea!!) I modified the PDF so the apples have ruled guidelines to help kids. Download this variation here.
UPDATE: A blog follower came up with a great adaptation for her kiddo. She plans to use this little game to help her kindergartener practice writing certain letters. (What a good idea!!) I modified the PDF so the apples have ruled guidelines to help kids. Download this variation here.
where do you download the game board printable at?
ReplyDeleteOops! I must have forgotten to include the link. It's there now. Simply click on the picture of the die and #1 apple bushel. It will take you to Google Drive to download the PDF (FYI: you may have to log in to a Google account to view/download it). Sorry for the inconvenience!
DeleteLove this...seasonal and to the point for practicing sight words! Just in time for my homeschoolers!
ReplyDeleteI think I will use this for our phonics focus in class. Right now we are working on prefixes and suffixes. I will have them write words with assigned prefix/suffix. :) Thank you!
ReplyDeleteLove this! Such a brilliant way to get some spelling practice in. I've pinned this and I'll be sharing on social media as well! Thanks for including the letter practice version as well.
ReplyDeleteThis is way better than writing those hard words five times each on a piece of paper. Thanks for the fun game and printable!
ReplyDeletemy daughter needs help with sight words and i was thinking of using your wonderful game to help her wlearn them and add our first game to our family fun night that shes been asking for. thankyou so much for this wonderful idea. your awesome!
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